Turkey 'to send off first domestic space satellite by 2022'

Turkey's first domestic communications satellite will be sent off into space by 2022, Turkish Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu said.

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Turkey will send off its first domestic communications satellite into space by 2022, Turkish Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu said on July 15.

"Turkey will become one of the ten countries in the world that can manufacture communications satellites with the production of Türksat 6A," said the minister.

The minister spoke at a memorial for the TÜRKSAT employees who died during the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016.

Turkey's Satellite Communications and Cable TV Operations Company (TÜRKSAT) is in charge of satellite production.

The inferior models 5A and 5B will be sent off into space in the last quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, the minister added.

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